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Open Hardware and Linux Devices

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 26, 2023

Using an aircraft’s altimeter to replay mountain bike journeys

Maker Glen Akins wanted to relive his best mountain bike ascents and descents, so he hacked a vintage aircraft altitude indicator (also called an ‘altimeter’) using Raspberry Pi Pico and a little digital data conversion wizardry.

Patching Together Logic Gates

The digital world offers many advantages over its analog relatives, the use of boolean logic among them. Some of the functions, like NOT, OR, and AND are fairly straightforward and line up nicely with their linguistic counterparts. Others are more elusive, like XOR and NAND. For those just getting their start in digital logic, this teaching tool allows different logic gates to be wired together with patch cables.

Wind River Linux is selected by ZEEKR for future EEA development

Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems, today announced that Wind River Linux has been selected by global electric mobility technology brand ZEEKR to power its future electronic and electrical architecture for software-defined vehicles.